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Reef envoy's opposition to Clive Palmer-owned mine welcomed


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Reef envoy’s opposition to Clive Palmer-owned mine welcomed
Great Barrier Reef special envoy and Leichhardt federal MP Warren Entsch has come out strongly against the Clive Palmer-owned Central Queensland Coal project planned for just 10km from the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area.
In a letter handed to supporters of the Australian Marine Conservation Society’s action against the mine outside his electoral office in Cairns on 10 June, Mr Entsch said he had expressed his ‘very strong opposition to the project to Federal Environment Minister Sussan Ley and her staff’.
The mine is proposed for an area between Rockhampton and Mackay. It was deemed ‘not suitable to proceed’ by the Queensland government because of ‘unacceptable risks’ to the Great Barrier Reef and surrounding environments. ....

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